Catch&Release

Catch&Release is a UGC creator platform and content-licensing marketplace that helps brands and agencies discover, license, and clear rights for "found content" — real videos, photos, and footage created by everyday people and creators — for use in advertising and marketing campaigns. Its workspace lets marketing teams search and curate licensable moments, send content calls to its creator community, negotiate offers, and handle the legal clearance and rights packages, while creators earn passive income by licensing clips from their camera rolls. The platform pairs a brand/agency workspace (collections, storyboards, teams) with a creator community, using an access-first, pay-for-what-you-use model. Added to the API Evangelist network from an Accel portfolio lead.

Catch&Release is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Cloud Saas, Content Licensing, User Generated Content, and Creator Economy.

Catch&Release’s developer surface includes pricing, engineering blog, support, signup flow, and 6 more developer resources.

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17.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 4/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyCloud SaasContent LicensingUser Generated ContentCreator EconomyVideoAdvertisingMarketingMedia

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Composite quality — 17.0/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 8.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 4/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

About

About

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

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name: Catch&Release
description: Catch&Release is a UGC creator platform and content-licensing marketplace that helps brands and agencies discover,
  license, and clear rights for "found content" — real videos, photos, and footage created by everyday people and creators
  — for use in advertising and marketing campaigns. Its workspace lets marketing teams search and curate licensable moments,
  send content calls to its creator community, negotiate offers, and handle the legal clearance and rights packages, while
  creators earn passive income by licensing clips from their camera rolls. The platform pairs a brand/agency workspace (collections,
  storyboards, teams) with a creator community, using an access-first, pay-for-what-you-use model. Added to the API Evangelist
  network from an Accel portfolio lead.
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tags:
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- User Generated Content
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- type: Blog
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- type: Support
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- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.catchandrelease.com/sign-up
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.catchandrelease.com/m/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.catchandrelease.com/m/privacy-policy
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  url: well-known/catch-and-release-well-known.yml
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